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Nasim-e-Shomal
TypeWeekly
Owner(s)Seyed Ashrafedin Hosseini
Founder(s)Seyed Ashrafedin Hosseini
FoundedSeptember 1907
Political alignmentIndependent
LanguagePersian
Ceased publication1933
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Nasim-e-Shomal (Persian: نسیم شمال, romanized: Nasim-e šomāl, lit. 'Northern Breeze') was a weekly newspaper that existed between September 1907 and 1933 with intervals. Along with Sur-e Esrafil,Majalleh-ye Estebdad and others, it was one of the publications started following the Iranian constitutional revolution.[1]

Sorour Soroudi describes the paper as a "one-man weekly newspaper".[2] The weekly was a pioneer in using poems and satire in presenting the political and social situation of Iran at the time and was identified with its founder and editor, Seyed Ashrafedin Hosseini, a well-known poet. Over time Seyed Ashrafedin Hosseini was called Mr. Nasim-e-Shomal.[2]

History and profile

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The founder of Nasim-e-Shomal was an Iranian poet, Seyed Ashrafedin Hosseini, mostly known as Gilani.[3][4] The title was a reference to the Russian Revolution of 1905.[2] The paper was launched by Gilani in Rasht on 10 September 1907 soon after the Iranian constitutional revolution.[3][5] Gilani designed the paper to fight against despotism and to this end, he avoided producing a mainstream publication.[3] Instead, he covered his poems, satire and other literary work to disseminate his views in an attractive way.[3][6] His writings were also about women and their functions.[3] The paper came out weekly in Rasht until 1912 when Gilani had to move to Tehran due to the destruction of his publishing house by Russians.[3][6] In Tehran Gilani published the paper in a publishing house owned by Jewish people and continued to criticize the existing political environment through his poems.[6] During his period Nasim-e-Shomal was the most-read paper in the country selling over 4,000 copies although it was consisted of only two pages.[3] From 1925 when Reza Shah became the ruler the paper did not contain oppositional material.[7]

Nasim-e-Shomal ceased publication in 1933.[3]

Spin off

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Following the death of Gilani the title was published by other journalists from 29 May 1934 to November 1940.[5] However, this spin off was not similar to original Nasim-e-Shomal since it became a regular newspaper without its successor's attraction and originality.[8]

References

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  1. ^ Ali Gheissari. "Satire in the Iranian Constitutional Press: Introducing the Majalleh-ye Estebdat". Foundation for Iranian Studies. Retrieved 24 August 2021.
  2. ^ a b c Sorour Soroudi (Winter–Spring 1979). "Poet and Revolution: The Impact of Iran's Constitutional Revolution on the Social and Literary Outlook of the Poets of the Time: Part I". Iranian Studies. 12 (1/2): 32. doi:10.1080/00210867908701549.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h Serhan Afacan (2021). "Between Law and Tradition: Women and Womanhood in Iran's Nasim-e Shomal". Mukaddime. 12 (1): 123. doi:10.19059/mukaddime.809094. S2CID 235534314.
  4. ^ Ali Asghar Kia (1996). A review of journalism in Iran: the functions of the press and traditional communication channels in the Constitutional Revolution of Iran (PhD thesis). University of Wollongong. pp. 216–220.
  5. ^ a b "Nasim-e šomāl". Encyclopædia Iranica.
  6. ^ a b c Freydoon Azadeh Tafresh (June 2005). "Seyed Ashrafeddin Gilani (Nasim-e-Shomal). A Satirical Poet in the Guise of a Journalist" (PDF). IFLA (13): 3–5.
  7. ^ Mahmud Farjami (2014). "Political Satire as an Index of Press Freedom: A Review of Political Satire in the Iranian Press during the 2000s". Iranian Studies. 47 (2): 219. doi:10.1080/00210862.2013.860325. S2CID 145067513.
  8. ^ "Religious rhetoric, the satirical communication mode and the press". Ebrary.net. Retrieved 17 August 2021.
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